[RFCI-Discuss] what does 'held' mean?

[Abuse Desk]

Chris wrote:
> what does 'held' mean?

In reference to an RFCI submission, 'held' appears to mean that the RFCI 
Admin Team is still thinking about the "edge case" that has been presented, 
and has yet to make a decision.

For instance, in the case of our abuse submission of "com.ro", it appears to 
be an "edge case".  The next two paragraphs will discuss the pros and cons 
of approving a listing "com.ro".

Since "com.ro" has its own WHOIS Record and DNS Zone, we feel that it should 
be listed, unlike certain similar-looking SLDs like "com.au", "com.uk", and 
"com.hk", which do not have their own WHOIS Records.

OTOH, some might argue that "com.ro" is a special-case ccTLD subdivisional 
SLD that can't be expected to have an A Record, much less an email system 
that accepts email sent to "abuse at com.ro".  We would ask those that feel 
that way to contemplate adding a 'special-case ccTLD subdivisional SLD that 
can't be expected to have an A Record, much less an email system that 
accepts email sent to "abuse"' exception to the abuse.rfc-ignorant.org 
listing policy for similar-looking SLDs like "com.au", "com.uk", and 
"com.hk", which do not have their own WHOIS Records (although "com.au" and 
"com.hk" each has its own DNS Zone and 
http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=com.hk has some troubling 
rows with FAIL like "All nameservers respond" and "NS agreement on SOA 
Serial #"), but still listing "com.ro", which does have its own WHOIS Record 
and DNS Zone.

We understand that there may be some technical challenges with listing 
"com.ro" as a wildcard painting its subdomains like "rol.com.ro" with a wide 
brush, but present the argument that the architects of the "ro" ccTLD and 
the "RO TLD Registry" should have thought about that before they allowed 
"com.ro" to be registered.  Note that "rol.com.ro" does not have its own 
WHOIS Record at whois.rotld.ro, another point in favor of listing its parent 
with a wildcard.

We ask that our submission be reconsidered with the above in mind.

-- 
Thanks and Happy New Year,

Abuse Desk
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